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Wesolowicz DM, Spelman JF, Edmond SN, Schwartz AR, Kravetz JD, Edens EL, Becker WC. Increasing buprenorphine access for patients with chronic pain: a quality improvement initiative. Pain Med. 2024 Mar 1;25(3):226-230. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnad140. PubMed PMID: 37847654.
Crouch TB, Donovan E, Smith WR, Barth K, Becker WC, Svikis D. Patient Motivation to Reduce or Discontinue Opioids for Chronic Pain: Self-efficacy, Barriers, and Readiness to Change. Clin J Pain. 2024 Jan 1;40(1):18-25. doi: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000001167. PubMed PMID: 37855333; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10841444.
Becker WC, Frank JW, Edmond SN, Starrels JL. When harms outweigh benefits of long-term opioid therapy for pain: Need for a new diagnostic entity, research and improved treatments. Addiction. 2024 Jan;119(1):4-5. doi: 10.1111/add.16348. Epub 2023 Sep 27. PubMed PMID: 37766414.
Edmond SN, Wesolowicz DM, Snow JL, Currie S, Jankelovits A, Chhabra MS, Becker WC. Qualitative Analysis of Patient Perspectives of Buprenorphine After Transitioning From Long-Term, Full-Agonist Opioid Therapy Among Veterans With Chronic Pain. J Pain. 2024 Jan;25(1):132-141. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2023.07.027. Epub 2023 Aug 6. PubMed PMID: 37549775.
Dember LM, Hsu JY, Bernardo L, Cavanaugh KL, Charytan DM, Crowley ST, Cukor D, Doorenbos AZ, Edwards DA, Esserman D, Fischer MJ, Jhamb M, Joffe S, Johansen KL, Kalim S, Keefe FJ, Kimmel PL, Krebs EE, Kuzla N, Mehrotra R, Mishra P, Pellegrino B, Steel JL, Unruh ML, White DM, Yabes JG, Becker WC. The design and baseline characteristics for the HOPE Consortium Trial to reduce pain and opioid use in hemodialysis. Contemp Clin Trials. 2024 Jan;136:107409. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2023.107409. Epub 2023 Dec 10. PubMed PMID: 38086444; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10922728.
Heimer R, Black AC, Lin H, Grau LE, Fiellin DA, Howell BA, Hawk K, D'Onofrio G, Becker WC. Receipt of opioid use disorder treatments prior to fatal overdoses and comparison to no treatment in Connecticut, 2016-17. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2024 Jan 1;254:111040. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.111040. Epub 2023 Nov 28. PubMed PMID: 38043226; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10872282.
Denneson LM, Purcell N, McGrath SL, Abadjian LR, Becker WC, Seal KH. Integration of Health Coaches in a Whole Health Team Model of Chronic Pain Care: a Qualitative Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Dec;38(16):3574-3580. doi: 10.1007/s11606-023-08317-x. Epub 2023 Jul 18. PubMed PMID: 37464147; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10713909.
Sung ML, Eden SK, Becker WC, Crystal S, Duncan MS, Gordon KS, Kerns RD, Kundu S, Freiberg M, So-Armah KA, Edelman EJ. The Association of Prescribed Opioids and Incident Cardiovascular Disease. J Pain. 2023 Nov 27;. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2023.11.019. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38029949.
Manhapra A, MacLean RR, Rosenheck R, Becker WC. Are opioids effective analgesics and is physiological opioid dependence benign? Revising current assumptions to effectively manage long-term opioid therapy and its deprescribing. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2023 Nov 22;. doi: 10.1111/bcp.15972. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PubMed PMID: 37990580.
Buonora MJ, Axson SA, Cohen SM, Becker WC. Paths Forward for Clinicians Amidst the Rise of Unregulated Clinical Decision Support Software: Our Perspective on NarxCare. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Nov 14;. doi: 10.1007/s11606-023-08528-2. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37962733.
Wang K, Fenton BT, Skanderson M, Black AC, Becker WC, Seng EK, Anthony SE, Guirguis AB, Altalib HH, Kimber A, Lorenze N, Scholten JD, Graham GD, Sandbrink F, Sico JJ. Changes in opioid prescribing in veterans with headache during the COVID-19 pandemic: A regression discontinuity in time analysis. Headache. 2023 Oct;63(9):1295-1303. doi: 10.1111/head.14605. Epub 2023 Aug 19. PubMed PMID: 37596904.
Carr MM, Mannes ZL, Oberleitner LMS, Oberleitner DE, Beitel M, Gazzola MG, Madden LM, Zheng X, Barry DT. The impact of body image dissatisfaction on psychological distress and health-related quality of life among patients in methadone treatment. Am J Addict. 2023 Sep;32(5):460-468. doi: 10.1111/ajad.13432. Epub 2023 May 15. PubMed PMID: 37188650; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10524388.
Nwanaji-Enwerem U, Beitel M, Oberleitner DE, Gaeta Gazzola M, Eggert KF, Oberleitner LMS, Jegede O, Zheng X, Redeker NS, Madden LM, Barry DT. Correlates of Perceived Discrimination Related to Substance Use Disorders Among Patients in Methadone Maintenance Treatment. J Psychoactive Drugs. 2023 Jul 3;:1-11. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2023.2230571. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37399330; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10761588.
Merlin JS, Black AC, Midboe AM, Troszak L, Asch SM, Bohnert A, Fenton BT, Giannitrapani KF, Glassman P, Kerns RD, Silveira M, Lorenz KA, Abel EA, Becker WC. Long-term opioid therapy trajectories and overdose in patients with and without cancer. BMJ Oncol. 2023;2(1). doi: 10.1136/bmjonc-2022-000023. Epub 2023 Jul 3. PubMed PMID: 38259328; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10802123.
Rogers DG, Frank JW, Wesolowicz DM, Nolan C, Schroeder A, Falker C, Abelleira A, Moore BA, Becker WC, Edmond SN. Video-telecare collaborative pain management during COVID-19: a single-arm feasibility study. BMC Prim Care. 2023 Jun 29;24(1):134. doi: 10.1186/s12875-023-02052-2. PubMed PMID: 37386370; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10308713.
Yang Z, Kwon S, Yao Z, Yu H. Multi-label Few-shot ICD Coding as Autoregressive Generation with Prompt. Proc AAAI Conf Artif Intell. 2023 Jun 26;37(4):5366-5374. doi: 10.1609/aaai.v37i4.25668. PubMed PMID: 37635946; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10457101.
Vickers-Smith R, Justice AC, Becker WC, Rentsch CT, Curtis B, Fernander A, Hartwell EE, Ighodaro ET, Kember RL, Tate J, Kranzler HR. Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Diagnosis of Alcohol Use Disorder in Veterans. Am J Psychiatry. 2023 Jun 1;180(6):426-436. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.21111097. Epub 2023 May 3. PubMed PMID: 37132202; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10238581.
Goulet J, Cheng Y, Becker W, Brandt C, Sandbrink F, Workman TE, Ma P, Libin A, Shara N, Spevak C, Kupersmith J, Zeng-Treitler Q. Opioid use and opioid use disorder in mono and dual-system users of veteran affairs medical centers. Front Public Health. 2023;11:1148189. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1148189. eCollection 2023. PubMed PMID: 37124766; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10141670.
Edmond SN, Snow JL, Pomeranz J, Van Cleve R, Black AC, Compton P, Becker WC. Delphi study to explore a new diagnosis for "ineffective" long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain. Pain. 2023 Apr 1;164(4):870-876. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002783. Epub 2022 Sep 15. PubMed PMID: 36448976.
Baxley C, Borsari B, Reavis JV, Manuel JK, Herbst E, Becker W, Pennington D, Batki SL, Seal K. Effects of buprenorphine on opioid craving in comparison to other medications for opioid use disorder: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Addict Behav. 2023 Apr;139:107589. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107589. Epub 2022 Dec 17. Review. PubMed PMID: 36565531.
Riggs KR, Cherrington AL, Kertesz SG, Richman JS, DeRussy AJ, Varley AL, Becker WC, Morris MS, Singh JA, Markland AD, Goodin BR. Higher Pain Catastrophizing and Preoperative Pain is Associated with Increased Risk for Prolonged Postoperative Opioid Use. Pain Physician. 2023 Mar;26(2):E73-E82. PubMed PMID: 36988368; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10337451.
Howell BA, Black AC, Grau LE, Lin HJ, Greene C, Lee H, Heimer R, Hawk KE, D'Onofrio G, Fiellin DA, Becker WC. Concordance between controlled substance receipt and post-mortem toxicology in opioid-detected overdose deaths: A statewide analysis. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2023 Mar 1;244:109788. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109788. Epub 2023 Jan 30. PubMed PMID: 36738634; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9975083.
Krebs EE, Becker WC, Nelson D, DeRonne BM, Nugent S, Jensen AC, Amundson EC, Manuel JK, Borsari B, Kats AM, Seal KH. Design, methods, and recruitment outcomes of the Veterans' Pain Care Organizational Improvement Comparative Effectiveness (VOICE) study. Contemp Clin Trials. 2023 Jan;124:107001. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2022.107001. Epub 2022 Nov 13. PubMed PMID: 36384218.
Schrauben SJ, Becker WC. Balancing Risk and Uncertain Benefit in Pharmacotherapy for Pain in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023 Jan 1;18(1):3-4. doi: 10.2215/CJN.0000000000000031. PubMed PMID: 36719153; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10101602.
Buta E, Gordon KS, Gueorguieva R, Becker WC, Heapy A, Bathulapalli H, Zeng Q, Redd D, Brandt C, Goulet J. Joint longitudinal trajectories of pain intensity and opioid prescription in veterans with back pain. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2022 Dec;31(12):1262-1271. doi: 10.1002/pds.5531. Epub 2022 Sep 27. PubMed PMID: 35996825.
Yang Z, Wang S, Rawat BPS, Mitra A, Yu H. Knowledge Injected Prompt Based Fine-tuning for Multi-label Few-shot ICD Coding. Proc Conf Empir Methods Nat Lang Process. 2022 Dec;2022:1767-1781. PubMed PMID: 36848298; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9958514.
Kwon S, Yao Z, Jordan HS, Levy DA, Corner B, Yu H. MedJEx: A Medical Jargon Extraction Model with Wiki's Hyperlink Span and Contextualized Masked Language Model Score. Proc Conf Empir Methods Nat Lang Process. 2022 Dec;2022:11733-11751. PubMed PMID: 37103473; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10129059.
Gordon KS, Becker WC, Bryant KJ, Crystal S, Maisto SA, Marshall BDL, McInnes DK, Satre DD, Williams EC, Edelman EJ, Justice AC. Patient-Reported Bothersome Symptoms Attributed to Alcohol Use Among People With and Without HIV. AIDS Behav. 2022 Nov;26(11):3589-3596. doi: 10.1007/s10461-022-03628-2. Epub 2022 May 13. PubMed PMID: 35553287; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10084471.
Buonora MJ, Sung ML, Falker CG, Black AC, Becker WC. Self-reported Use of Prescribed Buprenorphine Among US Adults With Nonmedical Use of Prescription Opioids Motivated by Pain. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Nov 1;5(11):e2241670. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.41670. PubMed PMID: 36367731; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9652749.
Lee M, Bastian LA, LaRowe L, DeRycke EC, Relyea M, Becker WC, Ditre JW. Perceived Pain and Smoking Interrelations Among Veterans with Chronic Pain Enrolled in a Smoking Cessation Trial. Pain Med. 2022 Oct 29;23(11):1820-1827. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnac082. PubMed PMID: 35639969.
Edelman EJ, Gan G, Dziura J, Esserman D, Porter E, Becker WC, Chan PA, Cornman DH, Helfrich CD, Reynolds J, Yager JE, Morford KL, Muvvala SB, Fiellin DA. Effect of Implementation Facilitation to Promote Adoption of Medications for Addiction Treatment in US HIV Clinics: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Oct 3;5(10):e2236904. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.36904. PubMed PMID: 36251291; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9577676.
Sung ML, Black AC, Blevins D, Henry BF, Cates-Wessel K, Dawes MA, Drexler K, Hagle H, Molfenter T, Levin FR, Becker WC, Edelman EJ. Adaptations to Opioid Use Disorder Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Survey of Prescribers. J Addict Med. 2022 Sep-Oct 01;16(5):505-513. doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000948. Epub 2022 Jan 11. PubMed PMID: 35020698; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9271533.
Oldfield BJ, Li Y, Vickers-Smith R, Becker WC, Barry DT, Crystal S, Gordon KS, Kerns RD, Rentsch CT, Marshall BDL, Edelman EJ. Sociodemographic and clinical correlates of gabapentin receipt with and without opioids among a national cohort of patients with HIV. AIDS Care. 2022 Aug;34(8):1053-1063. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2021.1939851. Epub 2021 Jun 11. PubMed PMID: 34114904; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8664891.
Edmond SN, Wesolowicz DM, Moore BA, Ibarra J, Chhabra M, Fraenkel L, Becker WC. Opioid tapering support using a web-based app: Development and protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2022 Aug;119:106857. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2022.106857. Epub 2022 Jul 18. PubMed PMID: 35863697.
Ali J, Antonelli M, Bastian L, Becker W, Brandt CA, Burgess DJ, Burns A, Cohen SP, Davis AF, Dearth CL, Dziura J, Edwards R, Erdos J, Farrokhi S, Fritz J, Geda M, George SZ, Goertz C, Goodie J, Hastings SN, Heapy A, Ilfeld BM, Katsovich L, Kerns RD, Kyriakides TC, Lee A, Long CR, Luther SL, Martino S, Matheny ME, McGeary D, Midboe A, Pasquina P, Peduzzi P, Raffanello M, Rhon D, Rosen M, Esposito ER, Scarton D, Hastings SN, Seal K, Silliker N, Taylor S, Taylor SL, Tsui M, Wright FS, Zeliadt S. Optimizing the Impact of Pragmatic Clinical Trials for Veteran and Military Populations: Lessons From the Pain Management Collaboratory. Mil Med. 2022 Jul 1;187(7-8):179-185. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usab458. PubMed PMID: 34791412; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9389906.
Edmond SN, Snow JL, Pomeranz J, Van Cleve R, Becker WC. Arguments for and Against a New Diagnostic Entity for Patients With Chronic Pain on Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Whom Harms Outweigh Benefits. J Pain. 2022 Jun;23(6):958-966. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2021.12.006. Epub 2021 Dec 31. PubMed PMID: 34974174.
Black AC, Zeliadt SB, Kerns RD, Skanderson M, Wang R, Gelman H, Douglas JH, Becker WC. Association Between Exposure to Complementary and Integrative Therapies and Opioid Analgesic Daily Dose Among Patients on Long-term Opioid Therapy. Clin J Pain. 2022 Jun 1;38(6):405-409. doi: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000001039. PubMed PMID: 35440528.
Edmond SN, Currie S, Gehrke A, Falker CG, Sung M, Abelleira A, Edens EL, Becker WC. Optimizing Interdisciplinary Virtual Pain Care and Buprenorphine Initiation During COVID-19: A Quality Improvement Study. Pain Med. 2022 May 30;23(6):1043-1046. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnab348. PubMed PMID: 34940877; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9383145.
Becker WC, Li Y, Caniglia EC, Vickers-Smith R, Feinberg T, Marshall BDL, Edelman EJ. Cannabis use, pain interference, and prescription opioid receipt among persons with HIV: a target trial emulation study. AIDS Care. 2022 Apr;34(4):469-477. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2021.1944597. Epub 2021 Jun 28. PubMed PMID: 34180721; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10450359.
Van Cleve R, Edmond S, Snow J, Black AC, Pomeranz JL, Becker W. Classification of Patients for Whom Benefit of Long-term Opioid Therapy No Longer Outweighs Harm: Protocol for a Delphi Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2022 Mar 4;11(3):e33310. doi: 10.2196/33310. PubMed PMID: 35254277; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8933798.
Tong G, Seal KH, Becker WC, Li F, Dziura JD, Peduzzi PN, Esserman DA. Impact of complex, partially nested clustering in a three-arm individually randomized group treatment trial: A case study with the wHOPE trial. Clin Trials. 2022 Feb;19(1):3-13. doi: 10.1177/17407745211051288. Epub 2021 Oct 24. PubMed PMID: 34693748; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8847260.
Tobin DG, Lockwood MB, Kimmel PL, Dember LM, Eneanya ND, Jhamb M, Nolin TD, Becker WC, Fischer MJ. Opioids for chronic pain management in patients with dialysis-dependent kidney failure. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2022 Feb;18(2):113-128. doi: 10.1038/s41581-021-00484-6. Epub 2021 Oct 7. Review. PubMed PMID: 34621058; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8792317.
Merlin JS, Wachterman MW, Becker WC, Bohnert ASB. Serious Illness and Limitations of Death Certificate-Based Data: Urgent Lessons From the Opioid Epidemic. Am J Public Health. 2022 Feb;112(S1):S36-S38. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306409. PubMed PMID: 35143261; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8842219.
Hickey T, Abelleira A, Acampora G, Becker WC, Falker CG, Nazario M, Weimer MB. Perioperative Buprenorphine Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Med Clin North Am. 2022 Jan;106(1):169-185. doi: 10.1016/j.mcna.2021.09.001. Review. PubMed PMID: 34823729.
Coleman BC, Purcell N, Geda M, Luther SL, Peduzzi P, Kerns RD, Seal KH, Burgess DJ, Rosen MI, Sellinger J, Salsbury SA, Gelman H, Brandt CA, Edwards RR. Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pragmatic clinical trial participants. Contemp Clin Trials. 2021 Dec;111:106619. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2021.106619. Epub 2021 Nov 12. PubMed PMID: 34775101; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8585559.
Benning TJ, Shah ND, Inselman JW, Van Houten HK, Ross JS, Wyatt KD. Drug labeling changes and pediatric hematology/oncology prescribing: Measuring the impact of U.S. legislation. Clin Trials. 2021 Dec;18(6):732-740. doi: 10.1177/17407745211030683. Epub 2021 Jul 16. PubMed PMID: 34269090; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10119689.
Mitra A, Ahsan H, Li W, Liu W, Kerns RD, Tsai J, Becker W, Smelson DA, Yu H. Risk Factors Associated With Nonfatal Opioid Overdose Leading to Intensive Care Unit Admission: A Cross-sectional Study. JMIR Med Inform. 2021 Nov 8;9(11):e32851. doi: 10.2196/32851. PubMed PMID: 34747714; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8663596.
Lee M, Snow J, Quon C, Selander K, DeRycke E, Lawless M, Driscoll M, Ditre JW, Mattocks KM, Becker WC, Bastian LA. I smoke to cope with pain: patients' perspectives on the link between cigarette smoking and pain. Wien Klin Wochenschr. 2021 Oct;133(19-20):1012-1019. doi: 10.1007/s00508-021-01931-x. Epub 2021 Aug 30. PubMed PMID: 34460005.
Spelman JF, Edens EL, Maya S, Moore BA, Boggs A, MacLean RR, Ackland P, Becker WC, Lynch D, Garcia-Vassallo M, Burgo AL, Rosen MI, Gordon AJ. A Facility-Wide Plan to Increase Access to Medication for Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care and General Mental Health Settings. Fed Pract. 2021 Oct;38(10):460-464. doi: 10.12788/fp.0186. PubMed PMID: 34733066; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8560103.
Driscoll MA, Edwards RR, Becker WC, Kaptchuk TJ, Kerns RD. Psychological Interventions for the Treatment of Chronic Pain in Adults. Psychol Sci Public Interest. 2021 Sep;22(2):52-95. doi: 10.1177/15291006211008157. PubMed PMID: 34541967.
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